Still eating meat?
Some days I am sooooo glad I’m a vegetarian.
An excellent story over at a fairly new blog Cyber Ecology discusses what every meat eater should be thinking about. If You Only Knew: Mad Cow Disease, Beef, and Getting in Touch With Your Food.
06/04/2003
The Oil War
Thanks to this post over at the The Daily Kos I found this article. Yes folks, no one suspected it but the truth may be that our recent bullying of Iraq was, according to the U.S. deputy defense secretary Wolfowitz, about oil.
George Wright reports that:
Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war.
The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair’s position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a “bureaucratic” excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is “swimming” in oil.
The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address to delegates at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.
Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defence minister said: “Let’s look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil.” Read more….
06/04/2003
Weapons of mass destruction…
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“Do as I say, not as I do” Nuclear Policy… Michelle Ciarrocca writes:
The Bush administration has its foreign policy hands full with each nation in its “Axis of Evil.” From the ongoing search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to the appearance of negotiations with North Korea, and the push to declare Iran in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, President Bush is following through with his promise to make certain these “dangerous regimes and terrorists” can not threaten the U.S. with the world’s most destructive weapons.
But he’s going about it in a way that will actually increase the nuclear threat to the U.S. and the world.
Buried in the President’s 2004 defense budget are two particularly troubling requests. The first seeks to repeal a 10-year-old ban on the development of smaller, lower-yield nuclear weapons, also known as mini-nukes. The second is a $15.5 million request to conduct research on a new bunker buster bomb called the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. Read more…
and there
The pretext used by Georgie boy for invading Iraq was that Saddam posed a threat because he had the now famous “WMD”. Of course these have not been found. Some folks are starting to wonder if Bush and his pals ever truly believed:
The only evidence we need to know that the administration is simply in CYA mode is the fact they don’t seem very concerned about the “missing” WMD. If they really believed they existed, the hunt for them wouldn’t be motivated by a desire to justify the war, it would be motivated by the very legitimate desire to make sure the deadly weapons were not in the hands of evil-doers. Since the administration isn’t sounding the alarm along these lines, it’s obvious they’re unconcerned. They just want to find some scrap of something - a la the ridiculous mobile “labs” - to pacify the media and dupe the public.
If there were WMDs, and we can’t find them, then we have problems.